Thursday, May 31, 2007

Trey and Morgan go to Tellico, NC

Morgan and I set out Friday evening for Tellico, NC. This is the east coast mecca of offroading. I have been wanting to go here for years. I was very excited about the fact that we have not had any rain. Lots of rain makes for nasty difficult trails but as I found out no rain makes for more dust than the sahara desert. Morgan and I almost choked just getting into the woods. Once there we had a blast.

We stayed at an awesome cabin in the mountains with 15 of our other jeeping friends. Morgan and I slept in the attic which had been turned into a sleeping loft.

Parking at the cabin next to Chris and Christine..... We drove up some amazing trails.
I know the baby blue windshield doesn't match but it works when you are throwing things together at the last minute.

After about 9-10 hours on the trail we loaded up and went in hunt of some food. We found a great Rib Country BBQ resturaunt and did we ever do some damage to those ribs. After a full plate of meat we made room for apple cobbler and choclate cake and ice cream. When we were all done we decided we had had enough and hit the highway heading for home. It was a great trip and we will definitely be back again.

Trey and Joseph go to Gulfport, MS

We have a good friend that was hurt in a bad car accident on Feb. 13 of this year. The jeep club that we are members of decided to jump in and fix his jeep up. Well one thing snowballed into another and this turned into a complete overhaul. This became a whos who of offroad vendors project.

Before....

After....

We got donations from.....

JC Whitney
Soft Top, Center Console, Front Suspension Seats, Rear fold and Tumble seat, Front 5-point harness w/ camlock, 5Star tranny shifter

White Rhino Fabrication
Chris and Chip also were responsible for lots of the vendor contact and donations and coordination so I will let them fill in most of their items.

Custom roll cage built in one day, Tube Fenders, Rock Sliders, One Sick Dash

Performance Offroad
Chris & Tony and the crew did alot of the grease and sweat work for the drivetrain on this job as well as coordinating vendor donations. Shocks, Custom built Stinger, Final set up and pieces for the steering system

Randy's Ring and Pinion
Front axle locker and gears

Gulfport Powder Coat
Terry layed down some nice powder for lots of the pieces on this jeep. I don't know if he has a website someone update me if so.

Klien Muffler
Eddie Klien and his boys did the exhaust system with a Magnaflow muffler and a blingin tip.

Advanced Audio

Kings offroad enterprise
http://www.kore4x4customs.com/ DIY Beadlock kit & HD Crossover Steering

Stan's Powertrain
Yoke and Ujoints for the rear end

Majestic Tires
Rich in Mobile provided the spare tire and beadlock rim.
Interco Tires
Interco provided the 36" Iroks for an at cost price. I am not sure who picked up the tab for the rest of the tires.

Solid Axle

Northridge4x4

Corinet Bolt and Screw

Yukon Gears

Aussie Locker

Inchworm

Hummer Club of Jackson

Powertank

Searchers 4wd

A1 Radiator

Advance Auto Parts - Grant Steering wheel and install kit

O'Reilly's - Trans Temp

B3Concepts did the from bumper

12 Volt Guy - http://www.12voltguy.com/ - donated a custom switch panel for the Critter

More pictures can be seen at this link.